Get to know Sandy (Image credit: ConcernedApe) Birthday: Fall 15Occupation: Oasis shop ownerLocation: The Desert, inside the OasisLoves: Crocus, Daffodil, Sweet PeaHates: Holly, Red Mushrooms, Void Eggs It’s official—You’ll be able to romance Sandy in Stardew Valley after the 1.7 update, when she joins Clint as one of two new marriage candidates. But before then,…
Compulsion’s award-winning title ‘South of Midnight’. It’s been a busy week for Xbox, but it’s not done just yet! Following the announcement of its next generation console, it’s now locked in a release date for the Switch 2 version of the “award-winning” title South of Midnight. This third-person action-adventure title by Compulsion Games was announced…
It came to light in 2025 that Bungie had stolen work from artist Antireal and used it in Marathon—and I don’t mean in the “borrowed ideas from” way, I mean in the straight-up “copied and pasted” way. The situation was made doubly awkward because this had happened previously, in Bungie’s other game Destiny 2—and more…
If there was any doubt that Marathon would be Bungie’s new canvas for community puzzles and ARGs, let it go, because the community has already stumbled into a doozy. Terminals linked to Marathon (the ship) on Perimeter have suddenly awoken, and they’re pointing toward a spooky audio log seemingly left by Durandal, the rampant AI…
The new hardware lineup revealed by Valve in 2025—the Steam Controller, Steam Frame VR headset, and Steam Machine—made quite a first impression. The Steam Machine in particular came off as streamlined, simple, and very capable: A significant evolution over Valve’s early Steam Machines that has the potential to finally bring livingroom PC gaming to the…
Diablo 2 players have discovered a decades-old easter egg is now the single strongest way to find the rarest loot. The changes that came alongside the Reign of the Warlock expansion expanded the late-game loot hunt and opened the door for the easter egg’s one secret benefit to finally have a use. Known as the…
Horse games have a reputation—a fairly earned one, I’m sad to say—for being bad. If they’re horse-accurate, they’re ugly. If they’re pretty, they’re boring. If they’re highly anticipated, they’re buggy and unsupported. Horse enthusiast gamers have been burned before and often left half-fulfilled by the latest horse games. Horse courier sim The Legend of Khiimori…
While we all impatiently shuffle our cards and stack our chips until Balatro 1.1 gets here, we’ve got plenty to keep us busy: there are lots of Balatro-like games out there to play right now, and plenty more on the horizon. One of them is coming from a surprising direction. Mister Morris Games, maker of…
After being delayed in late 2025, Slay the Spire 2 entered early access on March 5 and was instantly a mega-hit. It shot past the two most recent big-hitters, Marathon and Resident Evil: Requiem, and remains firmly entrenched at the top of Steam’s best-sellers. That’s perhaps not surprising for the sequel to one of the…
One of the most famous and enduring lines of dialog in videogames is the prophetic utterance of Carl “CJ” Johnson in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: “Ah shit, here we go again.” It’s a feeling I can relate to, because the US government is once again using videogames to promote its policies and activities, this…